Solid Gold Meets Heroin Chic
Move over Rue McClanahan, there’s a new Golden Girl in town. The UK’s Independent reports that a 110-pound, solid gold statue entitled ‘Siren’ will debut at the renown British Museum on October 4th. The subject? Kate. Moss. And we thought gold chocolate, gold facials, and gold doggy beds were a little wacky.
The runway’s golden girl is the muse of artist, Marc Quinn, who created a solid gold replica of the supermodel in some kind of yoga pose. The piece is worth $2.8 million and is thought to be the world’s largest gold statue since the time of ancient Egypt. Leave it to Kate to give Cleopatra a run for her money.
“I thought the next thing to do would be to make a sculpture of the person who’s the ideal beauty of the moment,” Quinn said of his creation. “But even Kate Moss doesn’t live up to the image.” Tell us about it. Ms. Moss has thankfully not been in the headlines much since splitting with troubled rocker, Pete Doherty, but we’re sure this latest development will change that.
The museum released only a close-up image of the statue as a teaser, so we’re not sure what yoga pose dear Kate is immortalized in. Downward Dog? Baby Cobra? Our money’s on Child’s Pose.
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White Gold
Gold is a yellow metallic element. Pure gold is too soft to be used for making jewelry. To increase its strength it is mixed with other metals to form alloys. The metals so used alter the color of gold producing various shades of yellow, white and pink.
There actually exists no such thing as White Gold. When jewelers speak of white gold they refer to gold alloys that are white in color. White Gold was originally produced to imitate platinum.
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Identifying Real & Fake Gold Jewelry
There is a lot of gold jewelry out there that is said to be what it’s not. It doesn’t matter if you bought your gold jewelry from a regular jewelry store, online jewelry store or the markets; it’s just fake gold you need to look out for. Some sellers prey on consumers who don’t know the difference between gold plated jewelry, gold filled jewelry and solid gold jewelry.
Understand the terms
Understanding how to test and knowing the different types of gold jewelry will help avoid paying too much for your next piece of fine karat gold jewelry at an online jewelry store or an offline fine jewelry store.
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Testing Gold Yourself
Electronic gold tester:
To try to buy an electronic tester, which costs about 100 U.S. dollars. It concerns the introduction of the rule at a clip of gold jewelry item and then placing the item in an acid. The tester then tells you what carat gold is.
With the help of a test Stone:
You can also buy them for around U.S. $ 60 They rub the gold jewelry on the test stone tiny fraction of the gold back. They then write a golden needle test on the stone near the gold-sample. Thereafter, the appropriate acid are observed. If it is gold will dissolve.
Acid Test:
Allows you to distinguish if the gold jewelry piece is solid carat gold or gold plated. Acids are very dangerous and the appropriate precaution
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